Thanks for the quick replys yesterday... Obviously we're new to this (but making progress). Our goal is to create a minimized single CD distro with hands-off (kickstart) install. Therefore we have elliminated packages we do not need (dependency check passes). Working with Fedora CORE 3 and have followed steps in several available online documents: http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaDocumentationProject and http://bipolar.longbros.com/index.php?blog=5&p=29&c=1&page=1&more=1&tb=1&pb=1&disp=single but have settled on this because it looks like what we are trying to accomplish: http://insipid.com/RHOneCD.pdf We added our custom rpm's to the /RPMS/ dir and called them from ks.cfg but the install failed with "packaege does not exist" so we removed the calls from ks.cfg (packages remain the /RPMS/). We were able to create an ISO and boot it w/in VMWare, however, it dies at the very end of "Preparing RPM Transaction" with "Install exited abnormally". Documents above conflict on wheter or not it is necessary to modify .discinfo and/or comps.xml (since we have removed/added rpm's). Any ideas why anaconda may be crashing at this stage? Thanks a lot in advance! Earl __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com